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After failing to shunt the craft awards to the commercial breaks, maybe now is the time to introduce Best NLE.
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It was a teensy bit tongue in cheek Oliver
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[Bill Davis] “Two for Two now in the short subject live action Oscars for FCP X.
Which begs the obvious question, which NLE’s were used for everything else?
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I would stay in Resolve. I used to round trip back into CS6 but haven’t for years once Resolve got some decent title tools and I also used Boris Continuum for titles, credits & some VFX. Now with Fusion you can fully finish in Resolve.
Also export the audio as an OMF out of Pr for the sound post people. Most importantly ask them what they need. Resolve is still pretty bad at importing XMLs or AAFs for the audio. It’s been really good with picture imports but sound in and then back out is a mess.
Personally I ask for XML from Pr in Resolve rather than AAF. They are using the old Final Cut 7 xml format. There is a great comfort in old EOL formats like FCP7 XML and OMF. They just work and no-one is fiddling with them anymore. As a picture & sound post facility I always ask for OMF over AAF. I really don’t want the editors audio work. It all usually needs to be changed, both track config, bussing & processing so I often delete all clip gain anyway. So most of what AAF offers over OMF is not needed.
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They have pulled rabbits out of hats every NAB for many years. There will be something amazing again. The pace of Resolve software updates is such that there is highly likely to be a NAB version which they may well call 16. After all we are now on 15.2.4. We might see 15.5 before then anyway.
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I pulled out my mothballed MacPro 2009 with an intact Final Cut Studio 7 on Snow Leopard a few weeks back. A friend had asked if anyone had an old MacPro as his power supply had died so I pulled mine out and fired it up to check all was still well before sending it to him for parts. Within half an hour the power supply in mine died.
So that was it. Back in the cupboard and unless I bother to get a replacement power supply, that is the end of that era. I was only keeping the computer in the now rare instance that an editor needed me to fire up mine before getting xmls and OMFs out for grade & mix in Resolve which has been my main software for five years. But there are still people using it out in the wild.
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[Craig Seeman]”So we should see a mass exodus of CUDA dependent software from the Mac platform since they are such an insignificant player?”
Surprisingly software developers seem able to work around Apple’s imposed limitations. That is why this is really a debate about the hardware/driver support and Apple’s attitude. Even as a niche, Apple’s hardware and OS base is obviously worth developing for. For how long, who knows.
I left Apple years ago. The exodus is slow but all I see stopping greater bleed is fear of Win OS, usually from people who haven’t dealt with it ever or not since XP.
EDIT: Most software is not CUDA dependent, but may work better with it.
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Your whole Resolve experience will improve with a better GPU. The 970 is ancient compared to your mobo. The critical aspect is the new GPU has enough onboard RAM as well. You might get better bang for buck on a GTX 1080ti. The newer RTX cards are better for ray tracing but I’m not sure Resolve leverages that performance. I’ve got a 4 year old mobo with a GTX 1080 and don’t get GPU ram messages using any part of Resolve including the Fusion tab.
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No matter how you slice it Craig, the problem is minor to both Nvidia and Apple. But mostly minor to Nvidia given the tiny hardware and OS share that Apple has compared to all hardware & OS. And we all have options to get around the problem. Sure it’s annoying to our tiny sector of the computer market. I don’t expect either company to blink.
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[Craig Seeman]”You’re holding it wrong. Apple was 4th in hardware sales. Apple sells computers, not the OS”
7.2% is niche in my book. Even if you add in the iOS share, Android is double iOS.
Yes I know they sell hardware which can ironically run Win and Linux. I wonder how many Macs are not just running the Mac OS. Either way the Nvidia issue is with their OS not the hardware. I don’t think I’m holding anything really, except with the lightest of hand.